by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began publishing its yearly rankings to help students identify graduate schools that put a high emphasis on educational quality as well as helping students succeed. Our methodology places a high weight on things such as post-graduation wages, time to graduate, and student-per-faculty ratio. Post-graduation debt, faculty and staff diversity, and other factors are also taken into account.
East Central University landed the #923 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1149 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking.
ECU also ranked #13 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Oklahoma.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 67.9% of the total graduate students at ECU are women and 32.1% are men.
About 28.0% of the graduate students who attend ECU are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 3.4% of graduate students hail from another country. For more details on graduate school diversity at the school, check out the chart below. If you click on it, you'll be taken to a page with more details.
The average tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $4,402 | $10,792 |
| Fees | $842 | $842 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at ECU is $42,417. That's about 27% lower than the countrywide average of $58,425 for all master's degree holders.
Get more details about the location of East Central University.
Contact details for ECU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1100 E. 14Th Street, Ada, OK 74820-6999 |
| Phone: | 580-332-8000 |
| Website: | https://www.ecok.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/ECUTigerUpdate |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/ECUTigerUpdates |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 90.5% of the graduate students at ECU took at least one online course. Approximately 75.5% of grad students took all their classes online during that same time period.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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More about our data sources and methodologies.